Space Invaders Clone

Programming, art and UI for this project was done by me. All audio was made by Jurrian Steman.

Controls:

• Arrow keys to move
• Spacebar to shoot

This was the first time I had used p5.js.
Some features for this project include:

• Enemies that move from side to side
• Shields that protect the player
• Multiple difficulty settings
• Tracking the player's score
• Uploading and retrieving scores from a database using an API

In order to achieve multiple difficulties I made an array of objects which stores all necessary data.

    let difficultyOptions = [
        {
            mode: "Easy",
            gameID: 4203605,
            initialize: setupEasyDifficulty
        },
        {
            mode: "Normal",
            gameID: 4203606,
            initialize: setupNormalDifficulty
        },
        {
            mode: "Hard",
            gameID: 4203607,
            initialize: setupHardDifficulty
        },
        {
            mode: "Endless",
            gameID: 4203608,
            initialize: setupEndlessDifficulty
        }
    ];
        

The initialize property refers to a function which initializes certain settings such as the amount of enemies. Using this method I only need to call difficultyOptions[selectorIndex].initialize(); to start the game with the chosen difficulty which the selectorIndex is refering to.

If I could start over there would be a couple things I would change.
First off, there could be more variety in the enemies and their placements. Secondly, I could have added a menu for settings like volume sliders for sound effects and music.